Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked slightly amused as he said : ‘ I am not owed any explanations , this is your house . ’ |
| 2 | While I am not denigrating individual interpreters working for the immigration service or the Home Office , many of whom work extremely hard and do a very good job , it is essential that those seeking political asylum have an absolute guarantee that the person doing the translating is independent , is fully aware of the importance of an asylum application , is fully familiar with the cases and is somebody whose background has been inquired into to make sure that he or she is not in a position to infiltrate the immigration service and pass information back to the regime from which the individual may be fleeing , thus putting their family at risk . |
| 3 | I am not making pedantic points when I refer to all those complexities and difficulties which are now beginning to bite in a way that I find worrying . |
| 4 | We are not suggesting any solutions , we want information with that information then er , a judgement can then be made by this Committee and something can be done to accept those jobs and to create employment for an unemployment . |
| 5 | Unfortunately we are not taught these things at school , and there are very few organisations offering practical , effective methods that really work . |
| 6 | Seventy-seven per cent think the youth of today are not taught proper standards of behaviour and 76 per cent thought parents allow their children too much freedom . |
| 7 | Although , for the most part , we are not considering all alternatives , there is such a striking difference in this development for Pr greater than or less than about 10 that a single illustration would be inadequate . |
| 8 | ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says . |
| 9 | If you are losing weight , then you are not consuming sufficient calories daily . |
| 10 | Thus , regulating the total quantity of pollution and conducting a series of spot checks on individual producers to see that they are not violating agreed standards is a relatively simple policy which may avoid the worst outcomes . |
| 11 | Verify with the LIFESPAN Manager that online LIFESPAN users are not experiencing any problems with LIFESPAN and that there are no System Errors in the LIFESPAN error log . |
| 12 | If these actions fail to resolve the problem , verify with the LIFESPAN Manager that online LIFESPAN users are not experiencing any problems with LIFESPAN and that there are no System Errors in the LIFESPAN error log . |
| 13 | The builders are not using any nails in the construction , in an effort to build an authentic cultural centre . |
| 14 | I HAVE listened with great interest to those voices who do n't want the ‘ South African tour rebels ' ’ ban to be lifted , and it is clear to me that many of them are not expressing these views out of a sense of justice or respect for the millions of blacks still suffering in South Africa . |
| 15 | As all these craft are not to exceed 16 feet 6 inches no cover is given whilst the craft is in international waters . |
| 16 | Thus the Welsh Office says : ‘ Hospitals have the option to seek self-governing status , but we are not expecting many applications . ’ |
| 17 | They are not forming stimulus-response associations . |
| 18 | ‘ The town and city industries ’ , he said , ‘ are not producing adequate goods to exchange with the food-producing farmer … people in the cities are short of food and fuel . |
| 19 | Fundraising by major charities for older people must emphasise both sides of the picture if they are not to reinforce harmful stereotypes . |
| 20 | Because mathematical skills are perceived as being easy to define and to recognise , and because such skills are perceived to be relevant , schools may be attacked if it is believed that they are not teaching such skills effectively . |
| 21 | Firstly , studies comparing salmeterol 50 µg twice daily with salbutamol 200 µg four times a day are not comparing equi–effective doses and differences between the two drugs may be due to differences in dose rather than differences in drug . |
| 22 | Is she further aware that , like myself , each weekend many hon. Members meet many chronically sick and disabled constituents who are not receiving adequate services to enable them to lead a reasonable and respectable life ? |
| 23 | It is not to be taken seriously — of course , electrons do not " choose " — but it is somehow irresistible for physicists to talk in this way , at least informally when they are not writing grave papers for their colleagues . |
| 24 | In fact , it seems likely that many of the studies of memory for arousing stimuli ( e.g. Christianson & Loftus , 1991 ; Christianson et al. , 1991 ) are not showing any effects at all which should be directly attributed to the subject 's general level of arousal . |
| 25 | You are not playing 11 men — it is a team and 40,000-plus lunatic supporters . ’ |
| 26 | These dedicated people are not scoring political points , they are desperately worried . ’ |
| 27 | We are not asking critical questions about Learning . |
| 28 | Bringing a group of patients together is a useful way of getting patients currently content with one injection a day to enquire why they are not having two injections a day as are the other patients they have met . |
| 29 | We shall generally ignore paralinguistic features in spoken language in this book since the data we shall quote from is spoken by co-operative adults who are not exploiting paralinguistic resources against the verbal meanings of their utterances but are , rather , using them to reinforce the meaning . |
| 30 | A spokesman for the bank said the computers will ensure that clients are not sold unsuitable products . |